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Copyright 1916 
by 

MTNMA THRUSTON 




Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron of Baltimore, and Founder of The 
Province of Maryland. He sent the first colonists to his new 
Province in 1634, after the death of his father, George Cal- 
vert. 



A DAY IN ANNAPOLIS 

By 

MYNMA THRUSTON 



"Annapolis, the Capital of Maryland, 
received its name in 1708, in honor of 
Queen Anne, the then reigning Mon- 
arch of England. The appellation of 
'the beautiful city' has often been ap- 
plied to her, especially when clothen in 
nature's brightest livery." — Extract 
from Ridgeley's Annals of Annapolis, 
published in 1841. :: :: :: 



ANNAPOLIS. 

We left Baltimore one bright, clear morning in Oc- 
tober for Annapolis, "on pleasure bent," determined 
for one day, at least, to leave dull care,, and the noises 
of the city behind us. 

We soon passed out into the open country, which 
never looked lovelier to our eyes; the woods brilliant 
in their autumn dress of scarlet and gold, fringing 
meadows as green as they had been in May, and here 
and there long rows of tall, shapely pine trees of dark- 
est green, standing like quiet sentinels at the -.edge of 
the woods. Above us were the cloudless skies as blue 
as azure — a perfect day, indeed, for a. real holiday. 

After passing by several small villages, and many 
quaint little negro cabins, with their tiny "garden 
patches," we came to "the beautiful city." 

The charm of this old-world town, an hour's ride 
from Baltimore, and an hour and a half from Washing- 
ton, for everyone who visits it, it is hard to describe — 
it must be experienced to be understood. 

Here we find many beautiful colonial homes of men 
of the most brilliant intellect that the country has ever 
produced, who, by their brains and courage, helped to 
make our great Republic what it is today — free and 
independent, and all Americans owe them a debt of 
gratitude. These old houses, where they lived their 
well-rounded lives, have been almost sacredly preserv- 
ed from the destroying hand of time. 

The dignity and repose of those early colonial 
times seem to still linger here, casting its glamour over 
us, until we almost forget we are not still the subjects 
of "good Queen Anne," for at every turn we are re- 
minded of her reign. "Annapolis" means The City of 
Anne, and the church in the middle of the town was 
called "St. Anne's" in her honor, and to which she 
presented a set of bells. Duke of Gloucester Street, 
which diverges from Church Circle, was named for her 

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Leonard Calvert, brother of Lord Baltimore, who brought the 
first colonists to Maryland in the ships The Ark and The 
Dove, in 1684. and was made the First Governor of Mary- 
land. 



little son, the only one of her seventeen children thai 
survived babyhood, and he died at eleven years of age, 
which we cannot wonder at happening, when we read of 
the hard lessons his tutors crowded into his little brain, 
to prepare him to be a king. Cornhill Street, Fleet and 
Conduit, are namesakes of great streets in London that 
were fashionable in Queen Anne's time, and "Prince 
George" Street was named for her husband. A merry 
group of girls, who had come down for the Academy 
Hop, dressed in the latest modern styles, passed down 
the street with their midshipmen escorts, and made us 
realize that we were now Americans, and "subject" to 
no one, but if George Third had been as kind to ns as 
Queen Anne we might not have longed for freedom and 
independence at all. 

THE STATE HOUSE. 

1 The State House, with its white dome, is to be seen 
from every part of Annapolis, and we chose the steps 
that lead to the grounds nearest the De Kalb statue, 
and so avoided the long, steep steps at the front and 
back of it. Baron De Kalb was a gallant German, edu- 
cated in France, who came over to help us during the 
Revolutionary War. He was mortally wounded at 
Camden, S C, in 1780, and one hundred years later, 
1883, the American Congress erected this statue of him 
in Annapolis, designed by Ephraim Keyser, a Mary- 
land sculptor. 

Entering the beautiful white marble corridor of 
the State House, the portraits of the four signers of 
the Declaration of Independence for Maryland (each 
of the thirteen States had four "signers") hung high 
on the walls, William Paca, Samuel Chase, Thomas 
Stone, and Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. We hardly 
realize in these days what fearless courage it took to 
sign the Declaration of Independence — had the Colon- 
ists, who had such odds against them, failed to win in 

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the Revolutionary War, the signers of it would have 
faced death for high treason against his Magesty, 
George the Third. Samuel Chase was said to have 
remarked : ''If men of wealth like Charles Carroll and 
William Paca can sign it, surely a young lawyer like 
myself can do' so, for I only risk a halter around my 
neck." The old Senate Chamber opened on the right, 
and when we entered it, we were in the most historic 
room in the country, for here, December 23, 1785, 
George Washington requested Congress, at that time 
assembled in Annapolis, to allow him to surrender his 
sword, and retire to private life. His great task was 
accomplished, and America was free from the oppres- 
sions of King George Third, and all the States united 
under one Republic. The President of the Senate sat 
in the same chair that now stands on the raised plat- 
form at the end of the room, and about the fine old 
mahogany desk were seated the members of Congress 
on that eventful day, where we now stopped to 
enter our names in the visitor's book that lay on top of 
it. How the blazing logs must have sent their sparks 
chackling up in the chimney of the huge fireplace at the 
side of the room, that day in December, while Martha 
Washington, surrounded by her friends, sat in the lit- 
tle "Ladies' Gallery," and watched her noble husband 
with pride, who received the thanks of Congress for his 
bravery and devotion to his country. 

In this room we also found a fine painting of 
Colonel Tench Tilghman, aide-de-camp to General 
Washington in the Revolutionary War, who said of 
him, "he has been a faithful assistant to me for five 
years, and has been in every action in which the main 
army was concerned, and a great part of the time re- 
fused pay." Colonel Tench Tilghman was born at 
Fansley, near Easton, Maryland, in 1744, and when 
thirty-one years old left his work in Philadelphia to 
join the Continental Army. When the British, under 
General Cornwallis, surrendered to General Washing- 

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The State House of Maryland, built in 1772. In it is the 
celebrated Senate Chamber where General Washington sur- 
rendered his commission to Congress after the Revolutionary 
War, on December 23rd, 1783. 



ton, in October, 1781, he rode from Yorktown, Virginia, 
to Philadelphia, the Seat of Government at that time, 
to announce this great news to Congress, making the 
journey in four days. Be received the thanks of Con- 
gress, a sword and a horse. He died live years later in 
Baltimore, in his forty-second year, and was buried in 
old St. Paul's Cemetery, where his grave is to he seen 
among many other Revolutionary heroes. 

Many original manuscripts hang framed on the 
walls of the Old Senate Chamber that tell us, through 
the "Proclamations" passed by the men of Maryland, 
their resolution to resist the tyranny of King George 
the Third, which eventually led to the Revolutionary 
War. By the Charter of Maryland, given to George 
Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, the owner of the 
Province of Maryland, by Charles the First, the people 
of the Province were never to be taxed, but treated 
like Englishmen, in trading with England, but George 
the Third, through his own love of money, broke this 
solemn contract, and began to put a tax on various arti- 
cles imported into Maryland, especially tea. I felt 
proud to see this Proclamation signed by one of my own 
ancestors, the stiff", old-fashioned handwriting on the 
paper yellowed with age. 

The little Ante-Chamber opening into the Senate 
Chamber has many historical paintings by the artist. 
Mayer, and pictures of many of the Manor Houses of 
Maryland. In this room are engravings of the six Lords 
of Baltimore, owners of Maryland until the Revolution- 
ary War. By this time the line had become extinct, as 
Frederick, Sixth Lord Baltimore, left no descendants. 

George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore, was granted 
the Province of Maryland for his services to England. 
He navigated up the coast of Maryland while in the 
Virginia colony, and then returned to England, but died 
before he could do anything towards sending settlers to 
his new land, lie was a convert to the Roman Catholic 
Church, and married Anne Mynne, daughter of John 



Mynne, of Hertfordshire, England, to whom he was de- 
votedly attached. She died, leaving him ten children. 
Later he married a second time. 

Cecilins Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore, fitted out 
an expedition to settle his new Province after the death 
of his father. They sailed in The Ark and The Dove, 
under the care of his brother, Leonard Calvert, whom 
he appointed Governor of Maryland. He was married 
to Lady Ann Arundel, of Wardour. The jealousies of 
certain persons in England, who wished to deprive him 
of the Province of Maryland, kept him in England, but 
he guided his affairs through his brother, Leonard, and 
later, through his son and heir, with great wisdom. 

Charles Calvert, Third Lord Baltimore, spent 
much of his time in Maryland, and married Jane Sew- 
ell, the widow of Henry Sewell, the Secretary of the 
Province, and a daughter of Vincent Lowe. Then 
home was the Manor House of ' ' Mattapeny-Sewell, ' ' 
still standing in St. Mary's County, Maryland. He re- 
turned to England, where Lady Jane died, and he latei 
married Mary Charlton, and at her death, her sister, 
Margaret. Like his grandfather, George Calvert, and 
his father, Cecilius, he was a man of fine character. 
Lady Jane had several children at the time of her mar- 
riage to Lord Baltimore, one of them, " Jennie," mai- 
ried Philip Calvert, the brother or half-brother of her 
step-father, and another, Anne Sewell, married Colonel 
Benjamin Rozier, of Maryland. 

Benedict Leonard, Fourth Lord Baltimore, Uvea 
only thirteen months after he inherited the Province of 
Maryland. He renounced the Boman Catholic faith for 
political reasons. He married Charlotte Lee, daughtei 
of the Earl of Litchfield. 

Charles Calvert, Fifth Lord Baltimore, spent only 
about six months in Maryland. He married Mary 
Jamison, daughter of Sir Thomas Jamison, of Surrey, 
England, and they had seven children. 

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George Calvert, 1st Baron of Baltimore, who was granted the 
Province of Maryland by Charles the First, for his services 
to England. He navigated up the coast of Maryland while 
in the Virginia Colony, but returned to England and died 
before he could send colonists to his new land, which he 
called "Terra Mariae" (Maryland), in honor of the Queen. 



Frederick, Sixth (and last) Lord Baltimore, never 
visited Maryland at all. He married Diana Egerton, 
daughter of the Dnke of Bridgewater. There were no 
children of this marriage. He drew a large yearly in- 
come from his Province of Maryland, which was gov- 
erned for much of the time by his brother-in-law, Sir 
Robert Eden. Frederick Calvert was selfish and extra- 
vagant, and was separated from his invalid wife, Lady 
Diana, who was said to have loved him devotedly even 
at the time of her death. 

At the side of this Ante-Chamber is a pair of nar- 
row, steep white stairs, and going up them we reached 
the visitors' gallery in the Old Senate Chamber, the lit- 
tle steps that Martha Washington and her friends went 
up that memorial twenty-third day of December, 1783. 

The next room contains a revolving stand, with the 
autographs framed of the first settlers of Maryland,, 
who came over from England in the ships. The Ark 
and The Dove, also the names of the estates they rent- 
ed in Maryland from Lord Baltimore, with their queer 
titles, "Batchelor's Hope" being one of them. This 
collection is of great interest to Maryland people. Many 
now living in Maryland are descended from these brave- 
men and women, who faced so many hardships and 
dangers to make their homes in a new world. There 
is no outlet to this room except through the Ante- 
Chamber, and as we came out into the corridor again,. 
we admired a fine bronze bust of Admiral Schley, who 
won fame in the Spanish War, and was a native of 
Maryland, and lived in Annapolis. 

The Geological Department, displaying all the min- 
erals to be found in Maryland, is on the left of the cor- 
ridor, opposite the Old Senate Chamber. The most in- 
teresting objects here to many of us were "the crown- 
stones" of the Mason and Dixon Line. Many people 
have thought this was an imaginary line, denoting the 
people of the North and the South during the Civil 
War, but it was a line that two English civil engineers 



were employed to "run" to settle a controversy that 
had been going on for a hundred years over the boun- 
dary of Maryland and Pennsylvania, between the heirs 
of George Calvert, First Lord Baltimore, and the heirs 
of William Penn. This dispute had even led to battles 
being fought by the followers of each party, and in 
1763 this line was run by Jeremiah Dixon and Charles 
Mason to settle it. These crown-stones were placed 
every five miles, and had carved in the granite on one 
side the arms of Lord Baltimore, and on the other the 
arms of the Penn \s. 

From this room we went into a small ante-chamber, 
similar to the one on the other side, where are kept the 
furled and tattered flags of the Civil War; the Flags of 
the Union and of the Confederacy. The sign over the 
door requests "men to remove their hats, and all to 
speak in low tones," which was an unnecessary request 
to me, for having had "some of my blood" on both 
sides, these flags made me feel so sad that I was not 
sorry to spend as little time as possible here. A war 
between Americans, and often brothers, seems hard to 
realize at this present time, and we are all glad to for- 
get it. 

A handsome pair of white marble steps leads from 
the corridor up to the offices of the Governor of Mary- 
land, and on the landing of them, is a beautiful painting 
of the scene in the Old Senate Chamber, George Wash- 
ington laying down his sword, surrounded by Congress. 

We looked into the new Senate Chambers on the 
lower end of the corridor, where the Legislature of 
Maryland holds its sessions every other year, to make 
the laws of Maryland. 

The bronze doors that lead to the outside steps are 
massive and finely carved with the Great Seal of Mary- 
land on them. The large building opposite the State 
House is "The Court of Appeals." The armorial win- 
dows in this corridor, by Tiffany, are very fine, repre- 
senting the Great Seal of Maryland on its two sides. 

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Christopher Hughes, a native of Maryland, who brought over 
a copy of the Treaty of Ghent, to be signed by President 
Madison. A treaty with England that has kept peace with 
that country and America for more than one hundred years. 
He was Minister to the Netherlands from 1825 to 18:50. and 
Minister to Sweden from 1830 to 1840. 



One shows Lord Baltimore in full armor, with drawn 
sword, gayly cantering on his steed ; the other his Court 
of Arms and Crest, which is a shield supported by a 
fisherman and ploughman, surmounted by a ducal 
crown. This seal is still the State Seal of Maryland. 

Ascending the white marble steps, we went into the 
Court of Appeals, the highest Court in the State, a 
handsome room, wainseoated with mahogany almost to 
the ceiling, which is formed of a dome of stained glass, 
that cast a soft light on the deep, pinkish velvet carpel, 
thick enough to conceal all the noise of our footsteps. 
At the end of the room, on a raised platform, sat the 
eight judges: Chief Judge, A. Hunter Boyd; Judge 
Burke, Judge Thomas, Judge Constable, Judge Urner, 
Judge Pattison, Judge Briscoe and Judge Stockbridge, 
looking very judicial and dignified in their heavy black 
silk gowns. Before them, inside of a railing, a lawyer 
was vigorously arguing his case, and having several 
generations of lawyer's blood in my veins, I wished to 
hear it to "the bitter end," but time was pressing all 
too quickly, so we quietly left the Court Room, to look 
in for a short time at the thousands of law books in The 
State Library, many of which can only be reached from 
little iron balconies, which have narrow spiral stairs 
leading to them. Here we found an almost complete 
set of the Old Maryland Gazette, the first newspaper 
published in America. A special cabinet has been made 
to preserve the copies of this paper, bound together in 
big, flat books, a precious relic to Marylanders. It was 
first published by Jonas Green, in 1745, and his descend- 
ants continued to publish it for ninety-four years after- 
wards. It is a wonderful store house of the history of 
life in the Colonies, and more fascinating than any 
modern novel. Its yellow pages tell us of the times 
when Annapolis was the centre of fashion in the whole 
country, with its "playhouse," balls and lotteries, 
which no one considered wrong in those days, as they 
were often the means of raising money for churches and 

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schools. Barges plied up and down the Severn, laden 
with gaily dressed ladies and gentlemen, with their 
powdered wigs ; while long rows of sedan chairs lined 
Duke of Gloucester Street, the location of the Assembly 
Room and Playhouse of Annapolis. The harbor, so 
quiet and peaceful now, was daily full of large ships 
from England and the Barbadoes, and even in 1815, it 
was one of the most important seaports in America. 
When Christopher Hughes, a Marylander, brought a 
copy of the treaty of Ghent for President Madison to 
sign, he landed at Annapolis — a treaty between Eng- 
land and America that has stood the test of one hun- 
dred years already. 

As we came out of the Court of Appeals Building 
the Governor's Mansion was directly before us, with 
its garden of beautiful flowers and fine old trees. This 
cannot be regarded as a colonial house, being built in 
1869, but it is a handsome residence of that period. In 
the drawing-room is a large portrait of Queen Henriet- 
ta Maria, painted by Miss Florence Mackubin, a Mary- 
land artist. 

King Charles himself suggested that Lord Balti- 
more call his new Province for his Queen "Terra 
Mariae" (Maryland). The State of Maryland ordered 
this painting of Henrietta Maria, and Miss Mackubin 
was commissioned to go to Warwick Castle to copy the 
celebrated Van Dyck of her there. 

Our next point of interest was St. Anne's Episco- 
pal Church on ( Ihurch Circle, and on our way to it from 
the Governor's Mansion, was passed the artistic Mem- 
orial Fountain, erected to do honor to the memory of 
Rev. W. S. Southgate, a faithful rector of St. Anne's 
for thirty years. A tall graceful cross, with a wide 
basin of fresh water below it, where several horses were 
quenching their thirst, seems a beautiful tribute to a 
minister, who, for so many years, told his congregation 
of "the Water of Life." 

On the same broad square was a modern postoffice, 




One of the wings of the Brice House, built in 1750. It is now 
nsed as a separate dwelling, corner Prince George and East 
Streets. 



a monument to the architect, who kept the colonial lines 
of Annapolis in building-. It is one of the most admired 
postoffices the Government has ever built, and we were 
surprised to hear it cost no more than many an ugly one 
its size. 

St. Anne's Church, named for the reputed Mother of 
the Virgin, St. Ann, and in honor of Queen Anne of 
England, is not as old as it gives the impression of be- 
ing, for it was built in 1858, but a, church has stood on 
this site since 1695. This first one, falling into decay, 
was replaced by a larger one in 177-4, Queen Anne giv- 
ing the bells for the belfry. An overheated furnace 
caused the church to be totally destroyed by fire, and 
the present one was immediately built to take its place. 
The "furniture" of the church was saved, but the bells 
were melted by the fierce heat, and there is a legend 
that before they became a shapeless mass of metal, they 
rang out a last farewell peal. The quaint old Bishop's 
chair we saw in the church must have been part of the 
"furniture" saved. The sexton we found most oblig- 
ing in showing us the church, and he opened a little 
vault in the wall of the vestry-room, with a black iron 
door, to show us the Communion silver that King Wil- 
liam had given St. Anne's. Each piece had his Crest 
engraved on it, also the letter "R" (Bex-King). "We 
had found in the Maryland Gazette of 1751, the notice 
that the law would be enforced, obliging every person in 
the Province of Maryland to attend the services at their 
church or chapel on Sunday and Holy Days. On Mon- 
day the people absent were to be visited and fined, un- 
less they had a lawful excuse. This seems a stern way 
to make good churchgoers, but, perhaps, it has some- 
thing to do with the people of Maryland today being 
the most constant attendants at church, as has been 
stated by high authority, for many of them are the de- 
scendents of the settlers of the Province that had to 
face the law on Monday if they had not been in their 
seats the preceding Sunday, and we all know that good 



and bad habits descend through many generations of us. 

The colonial house now used by the Farmers Na- 
tional Bank as a home for the cashier, and for a bank 
building, was once a hostelry, called Reynold's Tavern. 
It is on Church Circle opposite St. Anne's Church. 

The pangs of hunger began to be felt, so we con- 
cluded that luncheon was very necessary just then, 
which we had decided to take at the modern hotel that 
has been made from the historic homes of Willim Paca 
and the "Briee House" used as an Annex. To a 
stranger, the circles and streets of Annapolis seem to 
melt mysteriously into each other, and we had to find 
our way by many directions, most politely given by 
young and old. We were told ' ' to go down Main Street, 
through Chancery Lane (which was a bricked pathway 
between two houses), and that we would come out on 
State Circle," which we did, and passed the little 
Treasury Building on the State House Grounds. It was 
built in 1694, and the General Assembly met here when 
the seat of Government was moved to "Anne Arundel 
Town" from "St. Mary's City," before there was any 
real State House. It was afterwards used as a Treas- 
ury for State funds. We turned down East Street, 
which quickly brought us to the Carvel Hall Hotel. This 
old colonial house, now the Carvel Hall Hotel, was built 
by Governor William Paca, one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence, in 1763. We read in his- 
tory of its beautiful garden, looking towards the Severn 
River, which gives us some idea of the style of living 
in colonial days. We are told that a springhouse was 
hidden among the trees and shrubbery. The brook run- 
ning through the garden, fed by artificial springs, flow- 
ed by the two-storied octagonal summerhouse, and the 
bath-house, supplied with water from the brook, for 
enjoyment on sultry days, all have disappeared now, 
but we can imagine what a charming surrounding it 
must have made for this fine old mansion. 

The Brice House, now an Annex of the Carvel Hall 

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The Paea House, now Carvel Hall Hotel, was built in 1763, 
by Governor William Paea, who was one of the four Signers 
of The Declaration of Independence for Maryland. 



Hotel, was built in 1750, by Edmund Jennings, a fa- 
mous lawyer of Annapolis, for his daughter, Mrs. 
James Brice. It is one of the handsomest of the colonia I 
homes of Annapolis. Its high chimneys lift their heads 
far up above the three stories of the house, and small 
wings, now used as separate dwellings, extend on each 
side. The interior of this house is very beautiful, and 
the carved mahogany rail of the staircase extends to the 
third story. From the library there was formerly 
a secret staircase, hidden in a closet in the bed-room 
above. We can only conjecture why it was put there, 
perhaps the owner was addicted to reading late at 
night and wished to reach his chamber without distrub- 
ing the household. 

The Iglehart House, sometimes called the Jen- 
ning's House, opposite the Carvel Hall Hotel, was built 
by Thomas .Jennings, a noted lawyer of Annapolis, and 
father of Ann Jennings, the wife of Governor Johnson. 
In those days it had an additional wing, which was 
afterwards taken down. It is said to have been the 
dwelling place of Samuel Chase, before he built the 
Chase Home. 

The Dorsey House, on Prince George Street, some- 
times called The Marchand House, was the colonial 
home of Major Edward Dorsey, and the Legislature 
met here in the year 1(>!)4, before the State House was 
built. 

After a very delicious lunch at this modern hotel. 
we went down Prince George Street to St. John's Col- 
lege, which looked beautiful in the afternoon sunlight, 
its vivid green campus bordered by splendid old trees. 
This College was first called " King William's School," 
and was established in 1695, under the patronage of 
William the Third of England. It was the third college 
founded in America; Harvard, in 1639, and William 
and Mary, in 1693, preceding it. The main hall of the 
group of buildings is "McDowell Hall," which directly 
faces Prince George Street, named in honor of Dr. 



John McDowell, the first President of St. John's Col- 
lege. This building was begun for the residence of 
Governor Bladen, a colonial Governor of the Province 
of Maryland in 1745, but was unfinished for many 
years, and after the Revolutionary War, was presented 
by the State to the College in 1785. On the left of it is 
''Humphrey's Hall," named for Dr. Hector Hum- 
phreys, Fifth President of St. John's. On the right is 
"Pinkney Hall," named in memory of William Pink- 
ney, the eminent Jurist of Maryland, who was a student 
of the College. "Woodward Plall," near King George 
Street, named for Henry Williams Woodward, and 
u Randall Hall," in honor of John Wirt Randall, of An- 
napolis, complete the College group, except the resi- 
dences of the faculty at each end of the campus. Many 
noted men have been students here, among them Gen- 
eral Washington's ward, George Washington Parke 
Custis, Francis Scott Key, and two of Maryland's 
greatest lawyers, William Pinkney and Reverdy John- 
son. On the campus, below Pinkney Hall, stands a 
noble and historic old tulip tree. No one knows its age, 
for the first settlers of Maryland found it here, and 
under its branches they made a treaty of peace with 
the war-like Susquehannocks, in 1652. When the Revo- 
lutionary War was begun against England, the inhabi- 
tants of Annapolis were ordered, with a beating of 
drums, to assemble under this old tree, and all persons 
not signing resolutions were ordered to leave the town, 
as they were regarded as enemies of their country. 
When the Independence of America was declared, the 
people of the town again met under it for a celebration 
of the joyful event. George Washing-ton and General 
Lafayette are said to have taken tea under its shade, so 
it is often called to this day "the tea party tree." 

The Pinkney House, on St. John's Street, was the 
colonial home of the family of that name, and stood, a 
few years ago, where the Court of Appeals Building is 
now. This fine specimen of a colonial house was saved 

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The Chase Home was built in 1770, by Samuel Chase, one of 
the Signers of The Declaration of Independence. It is one 
of the most beautiful Colonial Houses in Maryland. It was 
finished in its present style by Colonel Edward Lloyd, the 
father of Mary Tayloe Lloyd, who married Francis Scott 
Key, in its wainscoated drawing-room, 1802. 



from destruction by the members of the Pinkney fami- 
ly, to whom it had descended, employing wonderful 
mechanical skill to have it moved without injury to the 
house, and without being taken apart in any way, from 
the position of the Court of Appeals Building to its 
present situation, where it was placed on a new founda- 
tion prepared for it. The chimney of this old house is 
especially noticeable for being directly in front of the 
house. 

Ogle Hall, which is at the corner of College Avenue 
and King George Street, was built by Governor Ogle, 
in 1742. He was one of Lord Baltimore's governors, 
and was devoted to his horses that he 1 milt them a brick 
stable at the end of his plot facing the street. This old 
house was later occupied by another Governor of Mary- 
land, Governor Pratt. Like so many houses of that 
period, the handsomest side of the building is towards 
the gardens. The tiny little balcony in the second story 
at the front of the house is an unusual feature of this 
old house. The wing of the house was taken down and 
two modern houses built of the bricks. 

Leaving the campus, near Woodward Hall, we 
went down King George Street and around the corner 
to Maryland Avenue, as it was our intention to go into 
the Chase Plome. This house was begun and partly 
built by Samuel Chase, who was called "The Demos- 
thenes of Maryland," for his eloquent speeches to 
arouse the patriotism of the men of his State before the 
Revolutionary War. It took many years to build a resi- 
dence of this size in those days, as all the bricks had to 
be bought from England, and before it was completed, 
Judge Chase sold his home to Colonel Edward Lloyd, 
who finished it and lived here many years, when he 
brought his family from their beautiful estate on Wye 
Island to enjoy the gaities of the Capital. Many years 
afterwards, a descendant of Samuel Chase became the 
owner of it, and at her death, left it to be used as a 
home for ladies of moderate means. Francis Scott 

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Key, the author of the immortal "Star-Spangled Ban- 
ner," was married here to Miss Mary Tayloe Lloyd, a 
daughter of Colonel Edward Lloyd. She was one of the 
belles of Annapolis, and like many other belles have 
been, "she was cruel before she was kind," for it was 
said that she made curlpapers of his love-sonnets, and 
took pains that he should hear of it. The large hall, 
with its wide, white steps leading to the second story, 
diverging on either side at the landing, make a most 
beautiful staircase. In the drawing-room and dining- 
room, which open on each side of the hall, we found the 
most exquisite wood carving, all handwork, and finely 
carved marble mantle pieces, mahogany doors, with 
their little silver latches, and much colonial furniture. 
Mahogany wood, so valuable to us now, because so 
scarce, was used lavishly when the Chase Home was 
built, as in those days logs of it were brought from the 
Barbadoes, to ballast the ships. Even the pantry doors 
were of this costly wood. The cabinet of china used by 
Samuel Chase, decorated with his crest, stands in the 
hall, and the "eagle" mirrors on the walls are fine 
specimens of antiques. The drawing-room carpet has 
here and there bunches of roses scattered over it, and 
the little spinet, with the tall glasses to keep the candles 
from flickering, that stood on the top, made us almost 
feel as if a young lady with ringlets on her shoulders 
might have just left it. 

The Harwood House, directly opposite the Chase 
Home, was built later in 1780, and is greatly admired 
for its artistically carved door, and window above the 
door, all hand-carving. It was built for Mr. William 
Hammond, who was engaged to be married, and went 
to Philadelphia to buy the furniture for his house, but 
his engagement was broken, and he died a bachelor, 
never having occupied his new home. He sold it to 
Chief Justice Jeremiah Townley Chase, who added to 
it for his daughter, Frances Townley Lookerman. The 
hand-carved woodwork of this old colonial house is said 

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Francis Scott Key, a native of Maryland, and author of the 
immortal "Star-Spangled Banner." He spent his school 
days in Annapolis with his aunt, Mrs. Upton Scott, and 
attended St. John's College. He married Mary Tayloe 
Lloyd, at the Chase Home, in 1802. 



to be the most beautiful arabesque carving in Mary- 
land. It is now owned by a descendant of Chief Jus- 
tice Chase, Miss Hester Harwood. 

The Tilton House, on Maryland Avenue, is another 
colonial house that was built about the same period as 
the Chase Home and the Harwood House. 

The Peggy Stewart House,- on Hanover Street, was 
the home of Anthony Stewart, who was compelled by 
the people of Annapolis to burn his ship, "The Peggy 
Stewart," because it had brought over a cargo of tea, 
upon which George the Third, had unlawfully placed a 
tax. His wife was an invalid, and he ran it up on the 
beach at Fort Severn, now the Naval Academy, in order 
that his wife could see the burning of her namesake 
from the upper windows of her home. 

( )ur tour of dear, quaint old Annapolis was com- 
pleted, and like Kip Van Winkle, we had to rub our 
eyes before going down to our modern Naval Academy, 
which was directly before us as we came out of the 
Chase Home, on Maryland Avenue. 

There are many other fine colonial homes in An- 
napolis, among them are Randall Court, on State 
Circle, the William Pinkney House, on Charles Street, 
home of one of Maryland's most brilliant lawyers of 
Revolutionary times, and opposite to it, the quaint and 
attractive house of Jonas Greene. He here published 
the Maryland Gazette in 1745. The Ridout House, on 
Duke of Gloucester Street, is a splendid specimen of 
colonial architecture, and near it is a group of three 
beautiful old houses that John Ridout built for his 
children. He was one of the first colonists of the Prov- 
ince of Maryland. 

Carrollton, the home of Charles Carroll, one of 
Maryland's most noted statesmen during the Revolu- 
tion, is opposite to the Ridout House, and was built in 
L732, but it is now a seminary for Catholic priests, and 
the high walls almost conceal it from view. 

The Richard Carvel House, near it, on Shipwright 

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Governor Thomas Johnson and his family. He was the first 
Governor of Maryland under the Constitution, and nomi- 
nated General Washington for Chief of the American Army, 
in Congress Hall, at Baltimore, December 20th, 1776. His 
wife was Ann Jennings, daughter of Thomas Jennings, a 
famous lawyer of Annapolis. 



Street, has been made famous by Winston Churchhill 
in his book "Richard Carvel," but with an author's 
privilege, he has described the old Carvel Home on 
Kent Island and placed it on this spot in Annapolis. 
It has certainly this connection with the story, that Mr. 
Churchhill lived in this old house while writing his 
book. It was built by Dr. Upton Scott, whose wife was 
the great-aunt of Francis Scott Key, who lived here 
with Mrs. Scott, when he attended St. John's College. 

Many of the colonial houses took six or seven years 
to build, as the bricks had to be brought from England, 
a three months ' voyage, but they were built so well that 
they are in perfect preservation. 

Most of the principle residence streets were named 
for Queen Anne's family. Prince George Street, for 
her husband, the Prince of Denmark ; Duke of Glouces- 
ter Street, for her little son; Hanover Street, because 
she was of the House of Hanover ; King George Street 
was named for George the First of England; Fleet, 
Cornhill and Conduit Streets, for celebrated streets in 
London; Church Circle and State Circle, because St. 
Anne's Church and the State House are on them. 

The City Hotel, on Conduit Street, is one of the old 
colonial buildings, and has the distinction of having had 
George Washington for one of its guests, and it is also 
said to have been here that Admiral Paul Jones laid 
his plans for forming the American Navy. The Old 
Assembly Room, where the beaux and belles of Anna- 
polis danced, when it was called "the Paris of Ameri- 
ca," is in the City Hall, on Duke of Gloucester Street. 
General Washington is said to have attended a ball held 
in this "Old Assembly Room." 

THE NAVAL ACADEMY. 

The Naval Academy, the school for training officers 
for the American Navy, is one of the best equipped for 
the purpose in the world. 

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The handsome gray stone buildings have a beauti- 
ful natural setting, with the waters of the sparkling- 
Severn River at the back of them, and the fine old trees 
and wide green lawn in front. The little sailboats 
gracefully glide over the blue waters with their wide 
white sails outstretched like the wings of a sea-gull. 
This ''tidewater" river draws up salt from the sea, so 
far away as Cape Charles and Cape Henry, through 
the Chesapeake Bay. 

We went into the Chapel and admired its beautiful 
stained-glass windows. By a short pair of steps near 
the entrance on the inside, we went down into the crypt 
of the Chapel, where rest the ashes of John Paul Jones, 
the first Admiral of the American Navy, brought over 
from France by Admiral Porter several years ago, 
where they had laid in a forgotten churchyard in Paris 
for more than a hundred years. Grouped at intervals 
around the walls are the Admiral's flag, With the Stars 
and Stripes. The tomb itself is of black marble, with 
bronze ornaments. 

We found the doors of Bancroft Hall hospitably 
open to us, which has, in the centre of the building, the 
Midshipmen's Recreation Room, and on each end their 
"mess" and sleeping quarters in the wings. Many 
tablets were on the walls in memory of midshipmen who 
had heroically lost their lives, and a beautiful bas-relief 
of a sailor in bronze, life-sized, which the Daughters of 
the Revolution placed there in 1911, in memory of The 
American Seamen, who fought for the Independence of 
the United States. 

We went through the glass doors at the side of the 
room, to the balcony outside, and the most beautiful 
view of the Annapolis harbor, with the light-house in 
the distance, was before us, beyond the drilling grounds 
and athletic field. Lying near the sea-wall was the 
Spanish cruiser, "Reina Mercedes," which was sunk 
by the Spaniards in the harbor of Santiago, in an at- 
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Cuba, this ship was raised, repaired, and taken to the 
United States. It is now used as a Receiving-Ship for 
the Naval Academy. It looks so peaceful and dignified 
in its dress of pure white paint, that it is hard to realize 
its past adventures. 

As we came out again into the grounds, a large 
Indian's head of wood attracted our attention. We 
learned it was the figure-head Tecumseh from the old 
U. S. S. Delaware. It was the likeness of a great chief 
of the Delaware tribe of Indians, who lived during the 
Revolutionary period, whose name was Tamanend. 

The Japanese bell on the grounds was also of in- 
terest to us, which w r e were told was given to Commo- 
dore Perry in 1851, by the Regent of the Lew Chew 
Islands, belonging to Japan. At his death in 1858, the 
bell was given to the Naval Academy by his widow, as 
he had requested should be done. 

We went into the Library Building, which is also 
the Educational Department of the Academy, the Lib- 
rary being in the centre. We had been under the im- 
pression that we had been a very peaceful nation, with 
a few exceptions, until we saw all the trophies we had 
captured, flags in glass cases set into the walls of the 
Library Building, which have lately been reclaimed 
from the relentless hand of time by a large force of two 
hundred and fifty ladies, whose work covered six 
months, at an expense of nearly twelve thousand dol- 
lars to the Government. This collection of flags is one 
of the most beautiful and interesting to be found in the 
country, and two that especially appealed to us, because 
they related to such recent history, were, number fif- 
teen, captured under fire from a Boxer barricade, by 
Joseph Mitchel, Gunner's Mate, 1st class, of the Lega- 
tion Guard, at Peking, China, during the Boxers' siege, 
July 12, 1900; and the Jack of the U. S. Battleship 
"Maine," blown up in the harbor of Cuba, February 
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found rolled up at the foot of the Jack Staff, ready to 
be hoisted the next morning. 

The Administration Building, Power Houses and 
( )fficers' Club, on the left of the Maryland Avenue Gate, 
complete the Naval Academy buildings, except the 
Superintendent's house, which is very handsome, and 
the rows of houses where the officers live. There are 
three of these groups of houses, called Upshur Row, 
Rodgers Row, and the most modern of them, near the 
lower end of the grounds, built of cream colored bricks, 
called Sampson Row. 

The building at the right of Bancroft Hall is the 
Armory, and on the left, the Gymnasium. In this last 
is held the famous "Academy Hops," a popular feature 
of the Midshipmen's life. 



Annapolis, with its two lines of trolley cars, be- 
tween Baltimore and Washington, is one of the most 
accessible places of interest in the country. 

Trains leave the W., B. & A. Railroad Station on 
Liberty Street, between Lexington and Fayette Streets, 
every hour; and from Camden Station, on "The Short 
Line" Trolley of the B. & 0. every half hour from Bal- 
timore to Annapolis, and the round-trip fare is $1.00 
on both lines. 

The W., B. & A. Station in Washington, from 
which the trains leave hourly for Annapolis, is on the 
corner of 15th Street and Xew York Avenue. Rouno- 
trip from Washington, $1.50. The trains leave Anna- 
polis, for both of these cities, when returning hourly 
and half-hourly from the Short Line Station and the 
W., B. cV. A. Station on College Avenue. 

A delicious course luncheon is served at the Carvel 
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